> In _Star Wars IV: A New Hope_, the _Millenium Falcon_ is said to go 0.5 past
> light speed.  Not fast enough!
>

That's also the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. 
Which simply  means Han (or Lando!) took a short cut since parsecs are 
units of distances, not time.

> _ST:TNG_ and _ST: Voyager_ have episodes where individuals evolve or devolve.
> Evolution doesn't work that way.
>

Bah!  Evolution, mutation... It's all the same to a Hollywood script writer.

(Or Kentucky museum curator, but that's another topic)

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